Anorexia nervosa is a risk factor for secondary osteoporosis. Anorexia nervosa-related metabolic disturbances lead to disminished bone resistance and increased risk of fractures. We report a case of bilateral femoral neck fracture as the first symptom of anorexia nervosa in a male patient.

OBJECTIVE A large and well-characterized sample of individuals with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa from the Price Foundation collaborative genetics study was used to determine the frequency of anxiety disorders and to understand how anxiety disorders are related to state of eating disorder illness and age at onset. METHOD Ninety-seven individuals with anorexia nervosa, 282 with bulimia ...

The combination of type 1 diabetes and bulimia nervosa has been referred to as ‘diabulimia’. prognosis is poorer in subjects with comorbid disorder than those isolated nervosa. Collaborative, integrated care needed the assessment treatment patients. In this review article we provide a formulation merging both transdiagnostic dual pathway models discuss latest evidence-based management for patie...

A digitalis-like compound was detected in human plasma by tritiated ouabain competition binding to the sodium pump. The study comprised analyses of plasma extracts from 17 normal controls, 17 normotensive subjects with one or both parents hypertensive, and 16 patients with untreated essential hypertension. In two thirds of the untreated hypertensive and several of the normotensive subjects with...

In the treatment of worsening of systolic heart failure important role maintains digoxin. In the management of older patients it is important to take into account age-related changes of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, decreased glomerular filtration rate, sex and concomitant diseases. Older individuals have lower tolerance of digitalis than younger. They have increased risk of digitalis ...

We compared nutritional knowledge, eating attitudes and chronic dietary restraint scores among 17 men (10 with bulimia nervosa and 7 with anorexia nervosa) and 50 women (20 with bulimia nervosa and 30 with anorexia nervosa), who were consecutive patients at a major treatment center in Brazil. There were no differences in nutritional knowledge and concern with food between men and women. For bot...

Though he received his medical education in Edinburgh, William Withering was born and bred, and conducted his practice, in the Midlands of England, where he collaborated closely with medical and nonmedical colleagues who were pioneers of intellectual thought during the industrial revolution. Because of his profound botanical knowledge, he was able to identify Digitalis purpurea as the essential...

BACKGROUND We used contemporary family-epidemiological methods to examine patterns of comorbidity and familial aggregation of psychiatric disorders for anorexia and bulimia nervosa. METHODS Direct interviews and blind best-estimate diagnostic procedures were used with diagnostically "pure" groups of probands with eating disorders and a matched control group. Lifetime prevalence rates of eatin...

Anorexia nervosa is often complicated by devastating medical problems and may result in death. Although studies suggest a multifactorial cause for the disorder, treatment trials have yet to provide clinical guidance about how best to approach anorexia nervosa. However, recent studies have found that for adolescents who have short-duration anorexia nervosa, a specific form of family-based treatm...